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From the archive: Inside the bizarre, bungled raid on North Korea’s Madrid embassy

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Bungled Raid on North Korean Embassy in Madrid

This chapter describes a bizarre and bungled raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid, where a woman and her son were held captive for four hours by assailants. The attackers attempted to convince a senior embassy official to defect and become the ambassador of a new state, but their plan fell apart. The chapter raises questions about the identities and motives of the attackers, as well as the timing of the raid in relation to a summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.

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